What activities are located where and why? This is a fundamental question in urban studies, which should be answered before planning. In urban economics, fine mathematical models have been developed and have provided an ...

Although there have been great strides in attempting to identify the locations that will yield the highest sales, the opinion among retailers remains that once the demographic, market, and sub-market analysis is complete, ...

(cont.) humanitarian role? (4) How do these organizations deal with the ICRC's humanitarian principles of neutrality, impartiality and independence? To answer these questions, I analyze organizational documents, examine ...

The South African government's attempts to provide land and housing for the poor have been focused primarily on interventions at the policy level and within internal state bureaucracies. But experiences of social movements ...

Discourses about the construction of identity, the politics of identity, and the role of design in controlling human behavior and expressing power have thus far been confined to separate realms of inquiry. This thesis will ...

In the last two decades, certain American suburbs have begun to struggle with issues traditionally thought of as urban problems and dealt with in city settings, such as failing schools, fragmented community, affordable ...

As the assigners of credit ratings and subordination levels, rating agencies play a critical role in the whole CMBS market. In an effort to investigate their influence in this market, we analyzed the business models, ...

The Tea Party movement, which derives its name and revolutionary zeal from the 1773 Boston Tea Party anti-tax protest, emerged in response to the Obama Administration's economic stimulus package and later coalesced around ...

The Massachusetts State College Building Authority (MSCBA) is a state agency that develops and renovates revenue producing facilities, such as residence and dining halls, for the nine state colleges in Massachusetts. The ...